Wiley for Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers

Citation:

Area, 2014, doi: 10.1111/area.12097 (Wiley early view)

Abstract:

This paper contributes to the debate about the creative (re)turn to geography through the lens of poetry. In considering the potentialities and limitations of geopoetics, I explore three issues in particular: evaluation of the poetic creative moment; poetry as a means of expressing an embodied, affective geopolitics; and the limitations involved in this particular creative move as a means of empathetic, passionate storytelling. The paper highlights the ambivalences and complexities of using poetry as a creative literary form of geographical world-writing.

This is the accepted version of the following article: Madge, C. (2014), On the creative (re)turn to geography: poetry, politics and passion. Area. doi: 10.1111/area.12097, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12097/abstract;jsessionid=F01C0658607242D719F339A712221C93.f01t01.